Loading photos from a flash drive into my Catalog

I am a "neophyte" Photoshop Elements 10 user. I installed over 14,000 original digital photos from CDs and DVDs into my Catalog without any problems. My wife copied some very old (scanned) family photos (black & white, pre-1930) onto a fla

I am a "neophyte" Photoshop Elements 10 user. I installed over 14,000 original digital photos from CDs and DVDs into my Catalog without any problems. My wife copied some very old (scanned) family photos (black & white, pre-1930) onto a flash drive and I then downloaded them into the Catalog - seemingly without any problems. However... The photos are shown in the Catalog and accessible in the Organizer, but all of them are identified by a ! icon (upper left-hand corner of each photo) as being "offline" and still resident on the flash (E:) drive. Therefore, they can not be edited. I've tried 2x to reformat and reload the photos onto several other flash drives and then download them into the Catalog without any success. They still are identified as being resident on the flash drive, only. Does anyone know what's going on and/or how to fix it? Thanks for any help can give. Elements "newby"

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Ken,
Thanks for educating me on how the Catalog actually works. However, I still don't understand how I could seamlessly load all of the other 14,000 photos into my computer from CDs and DVDs, but none from a flash drive. All of the photos I loaded came from Kodak Easyshare and Windows files located on another computer. I look at all of these removable media types as a viable means for transferring files from one computer to another. Why were the photos on the flash drive treated differently that that located on the CDs or DVDs when imported into the computer containing the Photoshop Elements program?
Anyway, thanks for the quick response.
Elements newby

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